Health, Culture & Society : Call for papers

Deadline : July 15th, 2011

AREAS : anthropology ; health ; social and community development ; regional health research ; national and global health awareness ; mental health ; quality of life issues ; health legislation ; health research, training and education ; the social history of medicine ; philosophies of health ; mental health ; cultural psychiatry ; the history of medicine
Health, Culture & Society is a new, digitally published periodical through Pittsburgh University’s D-publishing initiative with the internationally distinguished participation of members and senior members from The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Brazil) ; The Institute of Public Health (Bangalore) ; The Center for Modern European Philosophy, University of Kingston (UK) ; CODESRIA : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Senegal) ; The Department of Anthropology (Brunel University, UK) ; Cambridge University (UK) ; The University of Colombo (Sri Lanka) ;The University of Rome (Italy) ; the Royal College of Psychiatry (UK) ; NHS CAMHS (UK) ; Kathmandu University (Nepal), and the University of ChapecÓ (Santa Catarina, Brazil).
HCS is the product of initiative, research and debate centered on the history and development of the health paradigm and the social, cultural and community realities which define it. HCS is the product of dialogue and initiative from areas of expertise which have over the past decade been furnished by innovative research..
HCS is a platform where protagonists in the debate of health, critical perspectives and research from the social and medical sciences, can give visibility and exposure to research, development strategy and important debate in health and culture.
HCS is geared towards an inter-disciplinary approach to issues of health, culture and society inviting contributions from a diversity of fields.
HCS encourages both original and funded research into regional developments which can impact upon the global image of health, society and culture.
HCS will reflect the very real developments in ideas that shape our modern understandings of health, and how cultural and social factors are important to its paradigm.
HCS adheres to the strictest of editorial and review standards.
The first issue of HCS will be released late August 2011 . The theme will be “perspectives”. The international editorial committee invites contributions from researchers, workers and professionals who can relate the social urgencies and efforts of the realities they face as well as the changes they seek to implement. Contributions in English are preferred (Latin and Germanic idioms are also acceptable), the limit of which is 9,000 words including notes and bibliography.
For details, contact and registration please go to : http://hcs.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/hcs
Deadline for submissions : July 15th, 2011